Running an NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti Over Thunderbolt 2

[kemical]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7987/running-an-nvidia-gtx-780-ti-over-thunderbolt-2

 

 

SilverStone's/ASUS' Thunderbolt eGPU enclosure at CES

 

Courtesy of Tech Inferno forum user squinks

[AMD Lover]

Yep, cool stuff. It appears the laptop has a virus though (Bottom left hand corner of screen)

 

Edit: after zooming in McAfee just wants you to waste your money, lol

[CtW]

This would be amazing if manufacturers other than Apple or Asus put thunderbolt in their laptops and if the things came with GPUs pre installed so non-techies could use this without bitching about how they need to buy an extra part. Personally, the only way that I would buy something like this would be if the whole external enclosure was easily portable or if I worked in an office building and took a laptop to and from work. 

[Logan2012]

Yep, cool stuff. It appears the laptop has a virus though (Bottom left hand corner of screen)

 

Edit: after zooming in McAfee just wants you to waste your money, lol

Ha i thought the same thing.

[AMD Lover]

This would be amazing if manufacturers other than Apple or Asus put thunderbolt in their laptops and if the things came with GPUs pre installed so non-techies could use this without bitching about how they need to buy an extra part. Personally, the only way that I would buy something like this would be if the whole external enclosure was easily portable or if I worked in an office building and took a laptop to and from work. 

Give me a box the size of the GPU itself and I'd be fine with lugging it around. Whats in the picture though like you say i would have one at home and one at work and just plug it when when i take my laptop to the two places. Be awesome if the laptops GPU/APU and the external GPU could SLI/Crossfire/Mantle

[mikeeginger]

Cool great for laptop users 

[dyent10]

Give me a box the size of the GPU itself and I'd be fine with lugging it around. Whats in the picture though like you say i would have one at home and one at work and just plug it when when i take my laptop to the two places. Be awesome if the laptops GPU/APU and the external GPU could SLI/Crossfire/Mantle

 

i dont think u read the whole article. in order to use the external gpu, u would also need an external monitor.

 

this isnt anything new. there are some people using pe4l to connect a desktop gpu to a epcie port on a laptop. the only difference is, this guy used thunderbolt instead. 

[Kamil]

i dont think u read the whole article. in order to use the external gpu, u would also need an external monitor.

Getting the external GPU to drive the internal display is also possible, although there apparently seems to be some limitations with this homebrew method.

It's even less perfect than the already less-than-perfect results of direct video out from the card, but under certain situations it is possible to use the internal monitor.